Mrs. Gaskell is mentioned as the instigator of the
Red Cross
Library in The Unforgiving Minute by Ricketts at
page 329.
There is a quotation of Mrs. Gaskell remembering
Kipling and his scrapbooks (for wounded soldiers). The quotation is
taken from My First Sixty Years (l933) by Lady Maud
Warrender.
Ken Frazer.